The last election was held in November 2018, in which most of seats were won by the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak, led by Sulejman Ugljanin.

The Muslim National Council of Sandžak (Serbo-Croatian: Muslimansko nacionalno vijeće Sandžaka/Муслиманско национално вијеће Санџака; MNVS) was founded in Novi Pazar on 11 May 1991.

The MNVS sought autonomy for the Sandžak should Yugoslavia dissolve and called for Muslims to arm themselves in the case of a civil war.

[6] The secretary of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak, Rasim Ljajić, was named prime minister, while Ugljanin remained the president of the MNVS.

The SDA maintained a majority of seats in the new government, which also included the Liberal Bosniak Organisation and the Party of National Equity.

[8] Also in January 1992, the MNVS adopted a resolution calling the Sandžak Muslims to oppose the recruitment for the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).

[9] After the European Community recognized the secession of several former Yugoslav republics in December 1991, Ugljanin sent the results of the referendum to Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek asking for "the recognition and full international and legal subjectivity of Sandžak".

[8] In a follow-up letter to the European Ministerial Council of 5 April 1992, Ugljanin, under the impact of the imminent foundation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (founded after Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia left the country's previous incarnation), and referring to the Bosnian War, asked again for the recognition of Sandžak, as well as the deployment of UN troops and the establishment of an international presence in the region.

Referring to their imminent participation in the London Conference of August 1992, the MNVS announced a total boycott of Serbia and Montenegro, including their republican assemblies, until the Sandžak was granted official status and "state terrorism" ended.

[10] On 6 June 1993, the MNVS adopted the Memorandum on the Establishment of Special Status for Sandžak inside the Rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which sought far-reaching autonomy.

[13] Therefore, the name of the MNVS was changed to the Bosniak Muslim National Council of Sandžak (Serbo-Croatian: Bošnjačko nacionalno vijeće Sandžaka; BNVS).

On 6 September 2003, the BNVS held an electoral assembly in Novi Pazar; Sulejman Ugljanin was re-elected president.